[Farmall] Super A belt pulley

[Al Jones]

John,

I put one of those shields on the main PTO shaft on my restored Super A.  OEM made (makes?) them.

I have never, ever seen a Super A with a PTO shield on it. I now have four in various states of (dis)repair and they don't have any either.

Al


-----Original Message-----
>From: john hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
>Sent: Jan 8, 2012 2:00 PM
>To: Farmall/IHC mailing list <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [Farmall] Super A belt pulley
>
>Hey John, the only O-ring is the one that seals the unit against the 
>transmission.
>
>I did notice something in the parts book I found interesting. IH furnished 
>protective shields for the shafts that were held on by a hose clamp. Dad 
>remembers them and seems to think they came with the tractors. Gives me 
>something new to look for on restored tractors! I imagine they are a bit 
>hard to find as most folks probably did like my family and took them off and 
>never put them back on--this includes later model tractors as well.
>
>John
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "E. John Puckett" <ejpuckett at centurytel.net>
>To: "Farmall/IHC mailing list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 1:27 PM
>Subject: Re: [Farmall] Super A belt pulley
>
>
>> John, I think that originally there was a very thin o-ring that went on
>> the inside end of the sleeve between it and the shaft that when all was
>> clamped together it sealed the oil flow between the shaft and sleeve.
>> After 60 or so years, there is not much left of that o-ring.
>>
>> On 1/8/2012 7:25 AM, john hall wrote:
>>> Learned a new trick to deal with grease leaks on the belt pulley 
>>> attachment on a Super A, or any of the offset IH cultivating tractors for 
>>> that matter. One of the Super A's here had developed a noisy PTO so we 
>>> pulled off the belt pulley attachment so we could run the tractor with 
>>> just the PTO. Much to our liking the noise was gone. The bearings in the 
>>> belt pulley were worn enough it is allowing the gears to get out of 
>>> proper mesh. Called an IH dealer and got quite a sticker shock on the 
>>> price of the bearings, about $130 for the 2. I crossed over the bearing 
>>> #'s and tried a couple other places but the bearing prices didn't drop 
>>> much. Then we started calling around a couple local repair shops. Both of 
>>> which carry the outside bearing, it is just not as heavy as what IH 
>>> originally used. Since we rarely put a flat belt on it and aren't running 
>>> a belly-mower, the lighter duty bearing should work fine for us. These 
>>> bearings also are double sealed so they should stop the flow of g!
>> re!
>>>   ase. We had put a new seal in earlier last year but grease still feeds 
>>> between the spacer and the shaft the pulley mounts on--the seal only 
>>> stops what would flow on the outside of the spacer. Hopefully all the 
>>> parts we ordered will be in later this week. While we are at it we are 
>>> going to change the transmission grease. It looks horrible and I don't 
>>> ever remember changing it.
>>>
>>> John Hall
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